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Lucasfilm did not benefit in any way at Tyburn Film Productions Ltd's expense, counsel said to the appeals court there on 3 December 2025, in part because it already possessed rights over Cushing's likeness and an agreement and consent from the Cushing estate to 'resurrect' him as Grand Moff Tarkin. Tyburn contends it earlier made an agreement with the late actor then, at the time, granting the company a veto over any use of his image prior to his 1994 death. That contract concerns a TV series titled 'Heritage of Horror', which never aired. Tyburn further asserts the deal permits it to effectively 'resurrect' Cushing using stand-ins and CGI to ultimately finish the programme then if the actor were to die whilst filming remained in progress...
Irish telecom operator Eircom’s damages lawsuit against BT Group over a public-sector contract must be carefully managed to trial to deal with confidentiality issues and other matters, a UK judge told the parties today. At the High Court in London today, a judge said Eircom’s damages action against BT over a public-sector contract needs tight case management through to trial to address confidentiality and related concerns. Eircom brought the claim after Ofcom in 2020 penalised BT for its behaviour during a tender. Speaking to both sides, Judge Adam Johnson urged them to resolve any confidentiality flashpoints themselves and signalled he had no wish to step in unless it became unavoidable. He also expressed confidence that parties would do everything possible to keep confidential designations to a minimum, noting this was necessary to maintain control over the conduct of the trial. He framed this as the
The following document is attached: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/274 dated 5 February 2026, revising Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1981, establishing a final anti-dumping levy on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware produced in...
Justice Richard Arnold granted AstraZeneca leave to appeal and permitted lorries carrying about 175,000 packs of Glenmark’s generics to move on to wholesalers, provided they did not reach pharmacy shelves while the case continued at any point during those interim proceedings. In this way, Glenmark could keep its first-to-market advantage, while causing only minimal detriment to AstraZeneca should the Court of Appeal later be persuaded to issue an injunction against supply. The judge said this approach maintained the status quo with the least possible prejudice to Glenmark’s position overall. The hearing was arranged at short notice, just days after the High Court refused AstraZeneca an injunction to block the diabetes generic from sale while the court considered whether the patents supporting the branded medicine were valid in law. Glenmark, Generics (UK) Ltd and Teva Pharmaceuticals have each begun proceedings in the UK to set...
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Domestic The CBI publishes Private Motor Insurance Report of the National Claims Information Database On 7 May 2025, the Central Bank of Ireland ( CBI) released its 2025 mid-year private motor premium report. Private motor insurance was the first line of business captured in the National Claims Information Database, created to hold aggregated claims data and enhance openness around the cost of claims. Drawing on information up to and including the first half of 2024, the publication sets out key insights and developing patterns in private motor premiums. Data indicate the average premium increased by 9% in the first six months of 2024 versus the same period in 2023, with the typical premium for that timeframe at €616. Policies with comprehensive cover continue to rise as a share of the market, representing 93% of all policies. While average premiums remain below the 2018 peak of €702, the...
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal ( CAT) handed down a partial ruling on actions brought by retailers over multilateral interchange charges, which are determined by Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc and are transferred by traders to acquiring banks whenever they take payments by debit or credit card. The CAT concluded that charges applied before 2015, when rules were introduced for UK and Irish consumer transactions, breached competition law 'by object', so evaluating their actual effects on rivalry was unnecessary in practice. The decision upheld a central contention from the merchants that Visa and Mastercard’s interchange charges set a 'floor' beneath the rates banks can levy, thereby removing price-based competition across transactions and preventing undercutting by acquiring banks. ' The Multilateral Interchange Fee short-circuits competition and distorts the process', the judgment formally stated. ' It is precisely the purpose of the...
On 25 June 2025, the Department for Business and Trade ( DBT) confirmed the UK’s intention to enter the Multi- Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement ( MPIA) as part of its wider trade agenda. By acceding, Britain stands with 56 other WTO participants, including the EU, Japan and Canada, who aim to preserve essential dispute settlement functions while the WTO Appellate Body is not operating. This step follows the recent entries by both Paraguay and Malaysia, taking MPIA coverage to almost 58% of global trade. In its statement, the DBT said that ‘joining the MPIA sends a clear signal that the UK is committed to the principles of free and fair trade’, whilst acknowledging that the WTO’s permanent appellate mechanism remains inoperative at present......
Mergers The CMA has begun a phase 1 inquiry concerning Boeing’s planned purchase of Spirit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc.—for more information, please see the case page. NOTE— For all live mergers before the CMA, consult the UK mergers—ongoing cases tracker. Upcoming dates For dates of forthcoming UK competition developments and events, please see further the UK Competition calendar......
European ESMA launches call for evidence on the retail investor journey under Mi FID II On 21 May 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority ( ESMA) opened a call for evidence ( Cf E) concerning the retail investor journey within the framework of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (( EU) 2014/65) ( Mi FID II). The purpose of this Cf E is to collect stakeholder input on barriers and frictions to participating in capital markets, and to gauge whether targeted simplifications could make it easier for investors to engage with those markets. In doing so, the Cf E reviews key retail market trends, the day-to-day application of Mi FID II requirements, and the experience of investors operating under the European crowdfunding framework too......
Domestic Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman ( Amendment) Act 2025 ( Commencement) Order 2025 On 7 May 2025, the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, issued the commencement order to bring the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman ( Amendment) Act 2025 into force. Effective from 9 May 2025, the 2025 Act updates the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017, by: setting out how the Ombudsman’s expenses are calculated when carrying out their functions permitting the appointment of additional individuals to serve as Ombudsman providing for how investigations are conducted and making related consequential amendments Remarks by Central Bank of Ireland Deputy Governor Mc Munn at the National Fintech Summit On 13 May 2025, Mary- Elizabeth Mc Munn, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, addressed the National Fintech Summit on a central bank and regulator’s perspective on innovation in financial services. She underlined that a public sector...
A courtroom bid that fell flat has yielded damning conclusions that he misled the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) and Barclays about the breadth of his association with Epstein over many years, rather than overturning his lifetime ban from employment in financial services for misleading the FCA. In the wake of the Upper Tribunal’s 26 June 2025 decision confirming the FCA’s prohibition on him holding a managerial post in the financial services industry, Law360 examines the seminal findings set out in the judgment... ' A difficult dilemma' Judge Timothy Herrington, writing for the tribunal, said Staley, 68, had a clear incentive to play down his connection with Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose links had already stained the reputations of numerous business leaders and public officials. In 2019, when news of Epstein’s arrest for sex trafficking broke and focus shifted to his circle, the FCA asked...
The High Court determined that the Australian miner must now confront claims it tried to obstruct the municipalities’ access to justice in England by supporting proceedings in Brazil’s top court aimed at derailing compensation claims. In a written ruling, Judge Adam Constable stated the contempt application ought to be tried because the allegations were 'in principle capable of constituting a criminal contempt of court' if proven. The municipalities assert BHP is in contempt for agreeing to bankroll a case brought by Ibram, a Brazilian mining body, before the country’s Federal Supreme Court in 2024. They said that case was intended to stop them pressing ahead with the English action on the basis that Brazilian municipalities lack standing to litigate beyond Brazil’s jurisdiction. The municipalities further alleged BHP undermined the administration of justice in the High Court through its role in the Ibram...
V & another v K—guidance on disclosure and bias in maritime arbitrations V and another; K v V and another [2025] EWHC 1523 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? The decision confirms that, in LMAA references, an arbitrator owes no duty to disclose that the same law firm has instructed them on multiple, unrelated matters. Within the London maritime sphere, it is longstanding practice for parties and their solicitors to select the same tribunal members across a range of disputes, and to do so without issuing any disclosure about repeat appointments. That pattern is a feature of a compact, specialist marketplace, and is well known to, and accepted by, those who regularly operate within it. The judgment also conveniently identifies a series of considerations that the fair-minded observer would treat as bearing on the question of apparent bias......
Re P ( A Child) ( Financial Provision: s 423 Insolvency Act 1986) [2025] EWHC 1460 ( Fam) What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling serves as a timely reminder of the strength of section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( IA 1986) as a mechanism to defeat transactions that could disadvantage an applicant’s financial claims—especially in Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 ( Ch A 1989) cases where relief under section 37 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( MCA 1973) is not available. It emphasises the court’s capacity, when determining a Schedule 1 application, to rely on IA 1986, ss 423–425 to unwind the kinds of dealings that parties (such as the father in this matter) may arrange to frustrate the applicant’s financial position. The IA 1986, s 423 jurisdiction can also be valuable even where MCA 1973, s 37 might...
KSY Juice Blends UK Limited v Citrosuco Gmb H [2025] EWCA Civ 760 The background facts In 2018, the parties entered into a contract for the sale of wesos (orange pulp wash). The consideration for wesos delivered under that agreement was set by reference to ‘ Brix’ and varied according to the ‘ Brix value’ (a unit commonly used to price orange juice). The agreement covered a fixed quantity of 1,200MT each year for 2019 to 2021. Of that total, 400MT per annum carried a fixed price, subject to adjustment for Brix value of plus or minus 5 Brix, while the remaining 800MT was ‘at open price to be fixed’ by a specified date. Before the 2018 bargain, the same parties had concluded two earlier contracts. Those mirrored the 2018 terms, providing for a fixed quantity of wesos at a stated (but adjustable) price and further...
The FCA reported on 26 June 2025 that each of the 14 payments and e‑money firms it assessed fell short of mandatory standards for risk management and orderly wind‑down planning in the event of failure. ‘ None of the firms we reviewed fully met our expectations and, in particular, were not adhering to the guidance’, the FCA noted in its findings. That guidance explains how payment companies can demonstrate sufficient financial resources. The FCA’s assessment covered payment institutions such as money remitters and non‑bank card issuers, while banks were outside the scope......
On 25 June 2025, junior minister for AI and the digital economy, Feryal Clark, was questioned by MPs in Parliament about the Online Safety Act 2023, following her earlier comment that Ofcom’s codes of practice on illegal harms must be ‘proofed against judicial review’. Alan Mak MP, the Conservative opposition’s science spokesman, pressed her on whether this signalled that the Labour administration was placing legal defensibility ahead of swift safeguards for children online. Clark replied that the statute had been framed and enacted under the previous Conservative government, which ceded office to Labour a year earlier, and that it had been subject to delays and revisions that shaped its current form. She contended that it was his party that stalled and diluted the legislation, while ministers are now focused on delivering the Bill as outlined in the guidance....
R (on the application of Captain Lee Jones) v Shropshire Council [2025] EWHC 365 ( Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? This decision carries significance for CIL enforcement under the CIL Regulations, SI 2010/948, and more generally for administrative enforcement by public authorities exercising statutory powers. The court concluded that, although the CIL Regulations do not prescribe any statutory deadline for serving a CIL stop notice to secure unpaid CIL, the six-year time limit in section 9(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 ( LA 1980) governing actions to recover sums due by virtue of an enactment does not apply. The practical consequence is that there is no limitation period on issuing a CIL stop notice. As a result, a collecting authority may deploy this measure to enforce outstanding CIL where the underlying development remains incomplete, even if an...
JCT unveiled its intention to produce a new target cost form at its annual Construction Industry Parliamentary Reception in June 2023. Two years on, on 25 June 2025, the Target Cost Contract 2024 family was issued publicly, marking the completion of the JCT 2024 suite. This piece explores, in brief, the principal features of that contract family, including its approach to payment and its difference sharing mechanisms, with particular emphasis on the main Target Cost Contract 2024. Reference copies of every document in the JCT 2024 suite (including the JCT Target Cost Contract 2024 family) are available to access on Lexis+® Construction via the following: the ‘ Forms’ tab on our sub-topic ‘ JCT contracts 2024’ (within the main topic, ‘ Standard form construction contracts’), and Practice Note: JCT contracts 2024—reference copies For further information about the other contracts published as part of the JCT 2024...
Staley became Barclays’ group chief executive in 2015 after nearly three decades at JP Morgan. The American banker resigned in November 2021 following a UK regulatory probe into his links with Epstein, who died in prison in August 2019, weeks after being charged with sex trafficking. The FCA subsequently barred Staley from taking another top post in financial services — the first time a chief executive of a UK bank had been banned by the regulator — and imposed a £1.8m fine. He also had to forgo £17.8m after leaving Barclays, one of the UK’s largest. In a 26 June 2025 judgment, Upper Tribunal judges found Staley ought to have ensured his statements to the FCA were correct. The ruling said the FCA was now able to seek a ‘prohibition order’ preventing him from senior management and significant influence...
Thomas Norton v London Borough of Haringey [2025] EWCA 746 What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling carries significant practical consequences for housing lawyers, particularly those supporting clients with homelessness applications and disputes over local authority determinations. The Court of Appeal confirmed that councils enjoy a broad discretion when judging whether their statutory obligations under the Housing Act 1996 have been fulfilled. For practitioners, guidance on prospective judicial review must be anchored in cogent evidence of procedural unfairness or a misdirection in law. The court stressed that the judiciary should not replace a council’s assessment unless the outcome is irrational or unlawful. Local authorities ought to ensure their decision letters are carefully reasoned and show that all pertinent considerations, including personal circumstances and medical material, have been taken into account. For claimants, the judgment underlines the challenge of upsetting a...
District Judge Louisa Ciecióra convicted Aozma Sultana, 42, for refusing or failing to comply with an OFSI request for financial details under terrorism regulations. Sultana gave no 'evidence of reasonable excuse' for missing the June 2024 deadline, the judge said. Ciecióra J stated she did not accept that Ms Sultana had produced any proof amounting to a reasonable excuse, and ultimately found her guilty of the offence. The judge added that Sultana had not properly completed the first form submitted in response to the information request, and had then provided no answers to later follow-up requests sent by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation......
State aid Commission announces agreement with EIB Group on application of State aid rules to private investments for a resilient and decarbonised European industry The Commission and the European Investment Bank ( EIB) Group convened a roundtable today with leading financial and industrial stakeholders to explore ways to unlock private investments supporting a resilient, decarbonised European industry. The Commission and the EIB Group have agreed to streamline the application of State aid rules to the EIB Group’s financing......
Yet questions persist about what lies ahead for several core enforcement fronts, from foreign bribery and public corruption to crypto. White-collar practitioners and their clients are also monitoring the government’s renewed bid to incentivise voluntary self-reporting of corporate misconduct and how it unfolds in the months ahead. Concurrently, the white-collar bar across the profession is crafting fresh defence tactics in response to a spate of Trump clemency decisions that aided certain high-profile offenders found guilty of corruption and financial offences. Below are five pivotal themes to watch as the latter half of 2025 develops. FCPA enforcement Within a month of re-entering the White House, President Donald Trump also halted enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA) to, in his words, ‘further American economic and national security’. The step fuelled predictions that FCPA policing would be sharply reduced at the time. However, a 9 June 2025 memo...
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